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Swanger, David – Art Education, 1991
Compares the place of physical education and art education in the school curriculum. Claims that physical education deadens feelings and that a healthy democracy needs compassion, imagination, and interconnectedness. Concludes that to reassert education for democracy there needs to be a replacement of the dominant ethos of the football machines…
Descriptors: Art Education, Community Attitudes, Consciousness Raising, Democracy